Office Hours with Earth's Virology Professor Livestream 6/26/24 8 pm EDT

Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses - including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more - on this livestream on Wednesday 6/26/24 at 8:00 PM eastern US.

Office Hours is the name for my weekly meeting with students in my virology course. With this livestream I'm opening Office Hours for everyone else.

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– Who Am I? –

I’m Vincent Racaniello, Earth’s Virology Professor.

I’m also a professor of virology at Columbia University in New York. I’ve been doing research on viruses since 1976, and teaching virology in classrooms and online since 1999. On this YouTube channel I share videos of my lectures, podcasts, and more.

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[WillNewcomb]

So grateful for your contribution to communicating science. Us non-scientists are so thankful.

[marklemont]

Missed you Vincent and the Wednesday community! I’m so glad you are back. If I miss some Wednesdays it’s because family duty calls, but I will listen later.

[gbernardwandel]

Glad you’re back
I didn’t forget. I’m in Philadelphia and hearing ya late

[WillNewcomb]

I'm a member of the great unwashed (zero medical/virological background) but I found Vincent's Virology course had 2 essential lectures for health journalist: lesson 1 (general intro into viruses) and lesson 12 (general infection basics). I understood both and they were enlightening but I didn't understand the others.

[christopherrobinson]

In the UK we still use a mixture of units.

The older age groups tend to use imperial measures, but the younger folk are taught the metric system. Engineering has used metric units for many years. Initially the change to metric was strictly enforced, but now it is legal to use the old measures, eg; milk and beer can be sold by the pint and butter by the pound. The use of electronic scales permit flexibility.

On the road distances are measured in miles, speed in miles per hour, but fuel is sold by the litre. And fuel economy is measured in miles per gallon.

In aviation speed is measured in knots (nautical miles per hour). Distance is measured in nautical miles, but task lengths in kilometers. Altitude is measured in feet, but pressure in hPa (hectopascales).

Personal measures are feet for height and stones and pounds for weight, for the old and metres and kilogrammes for the young.

[nothingcangowrongnow]

I was just listening to Robert Redfield's interview with Chris Cuomo and had to run to TWIV for a dose of sanity.

[theunb]

Nobody mentioned the new M Pox. Might just be a scare story but there is a new strain of M Pox, supposedly more transmissible and so on. I think it was on the BBC news yesterday lunchtime.

[frogsong]

To like the complexity of viruses is similar to liking the complexity of the digestive system of mosquitoes. I personally like the First Noble Truth of Buddhism.

[littlejoe]

What concerns Vincent about a possible Lab Leak

[teecee]

Stupido Records is my go to place for records 👍

[WillNewcomb]

°C!!! Haha. Agreed!

Being old, I'm conflicted. My schooling transferred to °C back in 1960 so I use it all the time but I still relate to °F for personal experience!

[ShonMardani]

Dear Vincent, did you tour the world in 2019 to prepare them for Covid arrival?
All those great scientists in Sweden, did any of them hear about the Covid coming?

[razerginn]

The New York times has stopped journalism and puts out clickbait. Its a side affect of our google world

[WillNewcomb]

Light: essential! It's a pity that far too many YouTube teckies don't give light enough attention.

[SteveCandela-yg]

How long are people contagious after they test positive for COVID

[RiDankulous]

There was a ground animal. I forget what it was where helicopters would fly over and drop vaccination. I would assume within food to the animal I’m going to google and find out what that was but apparently from what I recall, it worked very well.

Aphis usda site page title: “USDA Continues Field Assessment of Oral Rabies Vaccine for Raccoons and other Wildlife“

The above article discusses this technique and I found it very interesting. I don’t know how this would be implemented with birds though.

[razerginn]

I love kidney shaped swimming pools for skateboarding, not swimming. Too hard to maintain

[luismatheu]

Have any one aligned N proteín from diferent sarbecovirus, interesting to see how many other sarbecos could test positive by antígen detection

[luismatheu]

Or the virus variation happens also in the new host cell

[TatianaBoshenka]

I know it's upsetting and infuriating, but you've done enough. Don't let the lab leaker idiots sidetrack your wonderful teaching of virology. We're here to hear what you have to say and not just hear debunking of idiotic ideas.